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J. A. KRING 




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J. A. KRING-, 

Associate Editor of The Church Herald. 



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DEDICATION. 

To God the Father, God the Son, and God the 
Holy Ghost, whose I am, and whom. I serve, these 
lines are humbly dedicated by the author. 



By Geo. H. ^ith. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

I. Sin 11. 

II. Sowing and Reaping 20. 

III. Conviction and Repentance 31. 

IV. Faith and Conversion 39. 

V. Consecration and Sanctification 48. 

VI. Death, Hell and the Judgment 57. 

VII. Death, Hell and the Judgment, Cont 65. 

VIII. A Pen Sketch of Personal Experience. . ..73. 

IX. A Pen Sketch of Personal Experience 

Continued 83, 



PREFACE. 

In these days of swift, appalling apostasy, when 
men hold such a vague, dreamy, uncertain idea as 
touching the almost unlimited responsibility of liv- 
ing, and the solemnity of death, hell, the judgment, 
and the recompence of a future life, it beco mes 
not only a God-given privilege, but an imperative 
duty to seize the well tested, long tried, and ever ef- 
fective Gosper trumpet, and waxing stronger and 
louder, so and a startling alai'tn to the siliy, giddy, 
careless, sleeping multitudes who are sweeping, with 
the momentum of a cyclone, down the river of death, 
past the last lighthouse of fall salvation, soon to be 
hurled over the falls of damnation, down, down, down 
into the lurid, liquid lake of fire and brimstone. Yea, 
it is necessary to "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up 
thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their 
transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins." 
Isa.. 58:1. 

This little book has been written in the midst of 
incessant evangelistic labors, and hence there has 
been no time for polished sentences, rhetorical flour 
ishes, or oratorical flights. Indeed these are not 



half so much needed just now, as the redhot, burn 
ing, scorching truth of God, which cuts through the 
stubborn will, pierces the hard heart, melts the stiff 
spirit, aud puts to blessed rest the disquieted soul. 
No time to trifle now. Men are being damned at 
lightning speed. What we do must be done quickly. 
The sweets of salvation are too delightful, sin is too 
awful, heaven is too beautiful, hell is too real, and 
eternity is too long for man, the creature of a mo- 
ment, to trifle with eternal realities. ■ 

I have prayed much over, what is found in the 
following p^ es ' and M ieve ^ He has led me to write 
these few feeble liD- es ' [ oal ^ : crave His -blessings 
upon them, and ask Hii2? ^° us ® them, at least a little, 
to awaken some souls to theiT ^rik And whatever 
good may be derived therefroi^ ? He shail have the 
glory. A thousand blessings " : iipori &'+*«> read - 
yours and His in Jesus' name, 

■ ; j; A*&UM, ; 

' '" f 222 'krftriW St! 

"' 'Ft/fecott, Kahs, 



KITRCBUCTIOn. 

Upon the windows of a publishing house in one 
of our great American cities are posted the words, 
1 'Books are the only things that live forever. ' J While 
this is not wholly true yet it is largely so, therefore 
we should be careful what we write. 

One of old said, "What I have written I have 
written. " We should be thankful that in these days 
of skepticism and infidelity, when real conviction is 
scored at, and conversion is made to mean only a 
change of purpose, and while thousands are plung- 
ing headlong into the lake of fire and brimstone, 
deceived by this false teaching, that here and there 
we find a teacher that will write and preach the 
truth on these lines, and thunder into the ears of 
the unsaved that conviction is a real godly sorrow 
for sin, and that conversion is a glorious work of 
grace wrought in the human soul whereby it is made 
alive and therefore a new creature in Christ Jesus, 
old things are passed away and all things are be- 
come new. 

Of this class is the author of "Trumpet Blasts 



to the Unsaved." Although a young man, he gives 
the trumpet no uncertain sound, but boldly sets 
forth the true doctrine of scriptural conviction, 
regeneration and entire sanctification in a way so 
plain that none need misunderstand his meaning, 
and God is setting ftis seal to : - his labors by giving 
him hundreds of souls for his hire. 

We recommend this little book to the reader 
as logical and scriptural, and we trust it will be 
read and studied with much prayer and self-ex' 
amination for God has said. "Be not deceived." 
In Him, John P. Watkins. 



Chapter I. 
SIN. 



I. John 3:4. 
Only three letters in the word, but oh! what an 
untold amount of sadness, sorrow, misery, woe, and 
ever lasting ruin it has wrought among the sons and 
daughters of men. Sin. There is nothing like it. 
It is not only real, but it is the most awful thing in 
all God's Universe. It has withered, blighted, 
cursed and wrecked every thing and every body it 
has touched. It attacked, overcame and slew the 
first pair of the human family in the Garden of Eden. 
It was sin that brought on the deluge and swept the 
Antedeluvian multitudes down into a Devil's Hell. 
Sin slew the prophets and the faithful embassadors 
of the gospel. Sin nailed Jesus Christ to the cross 
and since then has murdered multitudes of the 
saints. To-day it is filling penitentiaries, jails, 
brothels, houses of illfame, saloons, beer gardens 
and imbeciles with blood- bought, judgment bound 
and eternity destined souls. Nor does it stop here, 
but swiftly and surely drags its duped victims down 



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to a liquid lake of fire and brimstone, where they will 
be kicked as foot balls around the dark walls of the 
dismal pandemonium the sport of demonical millions, 
while the ages of eternity roll up from the dark 
realms below. Apalling scene! Frightful spectacle! 
Sin Defined. 

God has not left it to the caprice of man, his wis- 
dom, his knowledge, his understanding, nor yet to 
his reasoning powers to give to his iellows a defini- 
tion of sin. He well knew what was in man, and that 
if he left it to him there would be all kinds of notions, 
ideas, opinions, theories, etc., as to what it really is. 
So He, Himself, has given a Divine definition that for- 
ever settles the controversy. Here it is as He thun- 
dered it from the throne of His holiness: "Whoso- 
ever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; For 
sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. 
And the "Law" spoken of in this passage is not hu- 
man, or man made, but it is divine. Since it is di- 
vine we are not surprised to find the following: 
"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment 
holy, and just and good." Rom. 7:12. 

The different classes for which this law was 
made are set forth in the following words: "Knowing 
this that the law is not for the righteous man, but for 
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sin- 
ners, for unholy and for profane, for murders of 



SIN. 13, 

fathers and murders of mothers, for manslayers, for 
whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with 
mankind, for menstealers, for 'liars, for purj'ured 
persons, and if there be any other thing that is con- 
trary to sound doctrine.'' 1 Tim; 1:9,10. 

Here we have it, like a winding sheet of light- 
ning, straight from the throne. This divine law, like 
a two edged sword, is drawn out and ready to devour 
the lawless, the disodebient, the ungodly, the sin- 
ners, the unholy, the profane, the murderers, the 
manslayers, the whoremongers, the defiled with 
mankind, the men stealers, the liars, the perjured- 
person, and if there be any other thing contrary to 
sound doctrine. Listen, "To Me beiongeth vengeance, 
and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time for 
the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things 
that shall come upon them make haste." Deut. 32:35. 
Sinner look out or you will drop into hell. 
Sin Located. 

Some say it is located in the liquor traffic, the to- 
bacco evil, the traffic in girls, the lodge, the labor 
unions, the opium trade, life insurance, the combined 
"trusts", church sprees, etc. All of the above, and 
a thousand more too numerous to mention, that are 
world wide in their influence, and honey combing the 
entire social fabric, are feeders to hell, smell of the 
pestiferous, suffocating fumes in the region of the 



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damned and are engulfing millions in a bottomless 
pit of irrevocable, irretrievable woe and misery. But 
if we overtake, find, and locate the fountain head of 
sin, from which these sickening, withering, blighting 
streams of impurity flow, we must get on a hotter 
track than any of those mentioned above. For if sin 
is to be destroyed, it must be located, so that the 
divine power which does the work can be applied. 
And thanks be to Jesus, He has not left us in the 
dark at this point. He, Himself, has located it, and 
points to the corrupt, filthy fountain from which it 
flows. Here it is: "For from within, out of the heart 
of man, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica- 
tions, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, 
deceit, lascivousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, 
foolishness, all these evil things come from within 
and defile the man." Mk. 7:21-23. "The heart is 
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. " 
Jere. 17:9. 

Here we have it in a nutshell. Sin is located 
not in leather, or wood, or any of these material ob- 
jects, but in the human heart which is the seat of the 
affections. So says the Great Teacher and so we be- 
lieve. All these impure, unclean, filthy streams that 
are inundating the whole world and penetrating the 
entire social fabric, will cease to flow just in porpor- 
tion as the heart of the individuals are cleansed and 
purified by the precious Blood of the Lamb. There 



SIN. 15. 

is no other hope, nor is there any other way, for it is 
written, "Neither is there salvation in any other; for 
there is none other name under heaven given among 
men, whereby we must be saved.'-' Acts 4:12. '-But 
if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have 
fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus 
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. " 1 Jno. 1:7. 

Some things to which sin is likened. 

I. Sin is likened to afire. "For wickedness burn- 
etii as the fire." Isa. 9:18. Fire burns, penetrates, 
devours, consumes and destroys. And this is just 
what sin is doing. It is consuming manhood and 
womanhood. It is burning up the people of this world 
with lust, greed, unholy appetites, unholy passions 
and desires. Sin in the human soul sets the affec- 
tions and desires in a raging flame of hell-fire that 
sweeps through the deep subterranean regions of the 
heart spreading desolation, degredation, wreck and 
ruin, and, filling its posessor with the diabolic attri- 
butes of his satanic majesty makes him or her con- 
genial for the society of the damned. James in 
speaking of the fire of hell, and the smoldering em- 
bers of the bottomless pit, both of which are to be 
found in the heart of the unregenerated, says: "And 
the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the 
tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole 
body, and setteth on fire the course of nature: [Greek,. 
{ 'the wheel of nature"] and it is set on fire of hell." 



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James 3:6. Wake up or you will burn in hell fire 
eternally. 

2. Sin is likened to a disease. Disease in the 
Bible is often used figuratively, as is seen in the fol- 
lowing scripture: "From the sole of the foot even 
unto the head there is no soundness in it: but wounds 
and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been 
closed, neither bound up, neither molified with oint- 
ment." Isa. 1:6. Of the thirty five different kind of 
diseases spoken of in the Bible it is probable there is 
none more offensive and destructive to human 1 life, 
than the loathsome disease of leprosy. In the thir- 
teenth chapter of Leviticus we have the development 
of sin set forth in a figurative way by a detailed ac- 
count of the beginning, progress and final end of that 
obnoxious disease of leprosy. The following charac- 
teristics of this disease are worthy of note. Leprosy 
for the most part was hereditary. It was deep seat- 
ed within. The first visible signs were s mall. It was 
gradual in its development. It was loathsome and 
offensive. It brought a melancholy condemnation, 
and there was no earthly cure for it. So ifc is with 
sin. We were born in sin. ^Behold I was shapenin 
iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ' 
Ps. 51:5. It is deep seated within the human soul. 
Like leprosy it is gradual in its development. It is 
loathsome and offensive, both to the blessed adorable 
Trinity, and to all the pure and holy. It brings a 



SIN. 17. 

melancholy eondamnafcion, even an eternal separation 
from haaven and its inhabitants, and everlasting 
damnation in a davit's hell. And there is no earthly 
cure for ii. Nothing bu* the blood of our ever to be 
praised and adorable Saviour end Omnipotent Power 
can destroy it and cleanse it from the human soul. 
{ 'Without the shedding of blood is no remission.' ' 
Heb. 9:22. "Neither is there salvation in any other: 
for there is none other name under heaven given 
among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12. 
Sinner behold thy Redeemer. 

3. Sin has been likened to rebellion. "Behold 
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than 
the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witch" 
craft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry." 
1 Sam. 15:22-23. While it is true that none of us 
were born sinners, it is equally true that none of us 
were born sinless. That is to say, we were all born 
with the sin principle in us, inherited from our fed- 
eral head, Adam, which at the years of accountabil- 
ity, not only leads us away from God, but quickly, 
and most surely develops into open rebellion against 
the divine law, which is "holy, just, and good." 
Hence, we are not surprised to find open rebellion 
against God, in the home, the community, the state, 
the nation, and the nations. Men are lost; they are 
rebels; they are morally insane; they are in league 
with the unholy trinity, yea, with hell. itself, and are 



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arrayed against God and His kingdom, His truth, 
and His saints. Sinner, this means you. If you 
continue to follow the inclinations and desires of your 
own deceived, depraved heart, you with the millions 
that know not God, will make your bed in a devil's 
hell, Look out, for your feet are taking hold on it 
now. Yea, "hell from beneath is moved to meet thee 
at thy coming." 

4. Sin has been likened to blindness. "Their 
minds were blinded." 2 Cor. 3:14. "In whom the 
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them 
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gos- 
pel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine 
unto them." 2 Cor. 4:4. This is not a physical, but 
a spiritual blindness. Let me illustrate: The human 
body is made up of three grand classes or systems 
of organs. The first is the motive, or mechanical 
system, which is composed of the bones, the liga* 
ments, and muscles. The second is the vital, or nu- 
tritive system, which is composed of the lymphatics, 
the blood vessels, and the glands, the office of which 
is circulation, absorption, and secretion. The third 
is the mental, or nervous system, which is composed 
of the organs of sense, the cerebrum and the cere- 
bellum. The organs of sense by which we see, hear, 
smell, taste, and feel, and through which we receive 
impressions from external objects, communicate 
their impressions to the brain by means of special 



SIN. 19. 

nerves. This picture has its counterpart in the spir- 
itual realm. Corresponding to these senses are the 
five spiritual senses of the human soul, which are 
made alive in regeneration, and very keenly and 
highly intensified in entire sanctification. For we 
must not overlook the fact when Adam fell (and the 
human race fell with him) he lost his spiritual head. 
Hence this poor lost race is a headless race. This 
accounts for the reckless way in which poor lost sin 
ners rush down to a devil's hell. They have no spir- 
itual eyes, hence they cannot see the "lake of fire 
and brimstone" into which they are going. They 
are without ears, hence they do not hear the cries, 
groans, and shrieks of the doomed and dying. They 
have no spiritual tongues, hence they can not taste 
the fire of hell that is about to bum them with "the 
fire that never shall be quenched." And as for the 
sense of smelling and feeling, they neither smell the 
fiery billows that roll beneath their feet, nor feel in 
any degree, the pangs of hell torment, and the suf- 
ferings of the damned. Sinner friend, this is your 
own picture. In Jesus' name, wake up before de- 
mons drag your poor lost soul over the cataracts of 
eternal despair, down into the unquenchable flames 
of hell fire. 



Chapter II. 
SOWING AND REAPING. 



"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 
Gal, 6:1, 

There are four classes of people in the world. 1. 
The holy. 2. The moral (so-called). 3. The hypo- 
crite. 4. The out- broken sinner. The first sow to 
themselves "in righteousness". The second sow self- 
righteousness. The third sow hypocrisy. While the 
fourth sow sin in all its forms. The seed sown, 
whether good or bad, falls into the heart soil, is buried 
there, germinates, takes root and springs forth and 
produces both personal and active character. The 
character is nourished, cultivated, trained, grows and 
develops, until at last an abundant, well-rllled, ripe 
harvest is brought forth. This is followed by the 
reaping day, which is two -fold in its nature. For ifc is 
a settled, well known fact, proven both by the Bible 
and human testimony, that, although indiyiduals, 
families and nations do reap much of what they have 
sown during the probationary period, yet the final 
reaping day, with all the momentous disclosures that 
will be brought to view, with every secret thing is yet 



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future, and confined to a period of time which the 
holy Scriptures designate as "the day of judgment". 

The silly, deluded multitudes who are marching 
with double quick time down to a yawning hell, are 
ever busy sowiri^sin in all its forms, having, it seems, 
no thought, or conception whatever, of the reaping 
day and the final consequences of sin. Throwing off 
all moral restraint, ignoring all personal responsibili- 
ty and duty both toward God and man, hooting at 
divine demands and commands, and jeering at God- 
given privileges and opportunities, they- rush on, like 
the prancing steed to battle, when suddenly the sandy 
foundation over which they are traveling gives away 
and wfth an awful wail they drop into hell, and going 
down beneath its fiery billows they sink to rise no 
more. Appalling scene ! Frightful spectacle ! 

As we stated before, we are not only sowing, but 
we are going to reap. And we are going to reap just 
what we sow; for God declares, that "Whatsoever a 
man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that 
soweth to his flesh, | shall of the flesh reap corruption : 
but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit 
reap life everlasting," Gal. 6:7, 8. 

Briefly let us look for a few illustrations of this 
God- given declaration. And may the Holy Ghost 
guide our thoughts in the path of truth. 

1. If you sow whiskey and intoxicating bever- 
ages, you will reap drunkards. Whiskey is an alco- 



22. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

holic poison going direct to the brain and unbalancing 
the lower part, it destroys memory, meditation and 
association of thoughts. It slays an army of one 
hundred thousand each year in the United States ; 
two hundred thousands in France and in other coun- 
tries in proportion. It causes nine tenths of our 
poverty and three fourths of our crime. Ninety three 
per -cent of the inmates of penitentiaries (there are 
fifty two penitentiaries in the United States) are hab- 
itual drunkards. Thirty nine out of every one- 
hundred deaths are caused by the liquor traffic. 
Drunkenness in this country has increased thirty 
seven per- cent in the last ten years. There are one 
thousand, seven hundred and forty one breweries^ 
two thousand, two hundred and sixty seven distiller- 
ies and more than two hundred and forty thousand 
saloons in the United States. These contribute to 
the support of the national government one hundred 
and eighty five million dollars annually, but they 
take from the citizens of this country over one billion, 
two hundred and fifty million dollars every year. 
The beer bill for the world is two thousand dollars 
every minute, or six pounds and fifteen shillings 
worth vanishes down the world's throat at every tick 
of the watch. The amount drank by the world in one 
year would make a lake three and three -fourth miles 
long, one mile wide and six feet deep, or two thous- 
and, three hundred and nineteen acres in area. In 



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this lake we could drown all the English speaking 
people to the number of one hundred and twenty 
millions, while all the people of England, Scotland, 
Ireland and France could stand in its bed. This hell 
on wheels (that is, the liquor traffic) makes a pauper 
every tick of the watch, and every minute disquali- 
fies seventy eight men for business. It is the broth 
of hell, and the liquid fire of perdition. Beware of it, 
for "At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth 
like an adder," Prov. 23:32. 

2. If you sow tobacco you will reap corruption, 
filth and a malady of diseases. Tobacco is a twin 
brother to whisky. It is a narcotic poison going di- 
rect to the heart. It contains seven per-cent nico- 
tine. One drop of this will kill a cat. There is 
enough of it in one cigar, if extracted and taken, to 
kill two men. There is enough of it in one pound to 
kill three hundred men. It slays an army of twenty 
thousand men each year in the United States alone. 
There are fifteen thousand insane people in the insane 
asylums of this country who have gone insane from 
its use. It produces heart disease, Bright's dis- 
ease, dyspepsia, smokers' sore throat, cancer, etc. 
It lowers the morals, diseases the whole body, cre- 
ates an appetite for intoxicating drinks, takes a firm 
grip upon the will power, weakens it, leads its victim 
away from the path of truth and purity, and is one of 
the open doors to hell. There is more than one billion 



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pounds of it i-aiiod each year in the world, at an ex* 
pen* 3 of 3to hundrad million dollar! to the farmers. 
Tho ^oboeoo bill for tho Unit*! Statee is seven nun- 
dr od and iltty million dollars a year, and for the 
s^h^i'i srcrld it is oror on© billion dollars annually. 
The increase in the usa of oigara and cigarettes in 
the United 3tatea since the y^ar 1875 is alarming. In 
tha^j yoa** the people of this country used forty million. 
In 1300 they used three thousand, two hundred and 
sixty million. During the past year ending June, 
1906, the number of cigarettes smoked were three 
billion, seven hundred and ninety one million, seven 
hundred and fifty nine thousand, nine hundred and 
three ; and the number of cigars smoked during the 
same period were eight billion, seventy million, six 
hundred and seventy two thousand, six hundred and 
forty. Without controversy the filthy weed is a men- 
ace to good society, and a strong breeder of impurity, 
vice and crime. It makes its victim as filthy as a 
goat, as stinking as a shoat, and quickly prepares 
him for hell fire. Beware of this blight of the pit. 

3. If you sow cards you will reap gamblers. We 
read of tobacco fiends, cigarette fiends, whiskey 
fiends, novel fiends, etc. But here comes the gam- 
bling fiend. He is diseased, debauched, degraded, 
vicious, and has little respect for himself or any one 
else. He apends his nights in the 3aloon, the brothel, 
the gambling hell, and in lurking about the streets 



SOWING AND REAPING. 25. 

watching for prey. During the day while honest men 
labor for a livelihood, he sleeps his life away. The 
following is applicable in his case. "He lieth in wait 
secretly as a lion in his den : he lieth in wait to catch 
the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth 
him into his net," Ps. 10:9. Many look upon him as 
one of the offscourings of the earth. Poor soul. But 
he is not alone in this soul- diseasing, mind « polluting, 
hell- igniting practice. These popular, apostate 
preachers and fallen church members of these back- 
slidden, fallen ecclesiasticisms are as deep in the 
blue mud of hell, as he is in the foaming broth of the 
bottomless pit. Why? Because they uphold card 
playing, dancing, pool, games of chance, etc., and 
thus exhibit to a God- defying, Christ-rejecting, 
Spirit-insulting, hell-bound world that they are in 
league with the unholy trinity, on the palace car 
route to the lake of fire and brimstone. Many a poor 
gambler received his first lesson in the parsonage, or 
in the house of a popular church member. What a 
shame! What an outrage! Those who pass for 
leaders and ins!ructors in religious thought, and who 
ought to point dying men and women to the Lamb of 
God, "which taketh away the sin of the world", giv- 
ing souls their first lessons in damnation. Think. of 
it. Eight million dollars pass from hand to hand each 
day in Christendom through gambling practice, and 
82,800,000,000 every twelve months. And why? Be- 



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cause we, as a nation, are reaping just what we have 
sown. * 'Be not deceived: God is not mocked, " Do 
you see? 

4. If you sow dances you will reap harlots, liber- 
tines, and suicides. There are 350,000 fallen women 
in the United States. The average life of these women 
is estimated to be only five years. Hence this means 
that they die at the rate of 70,000 r a year, or 5916 a 
month, or 197 a day, or 8 per hour, or one every eight 
minutes. Seventy five per-cent of this unfortunate 
class testify and lay the charge of their downfall di- 
rectly, or indirectly, at the door of the modern dance. 
The positions taken in the modern dance arouse the 
passions of men and women as scarcely anything else. 
And a demon-possessed man with his vile passions 
set ablaze with the fire of hell is an inhuman monster. 
As A general rule no true virtuous woman will se- 
lect for herself a companion to share the joys and 
sorrows of married life, who is fond of putting his 
arm around the waist of every young lady who does 
not object; and no true virtuous man is likely to 
choose for himself a young lady to be his wife and 
life companion who is delighted to have the young 
men put their arms around her waist. If the liber- 
ties taken with your daughter in the modern dance 
were repeated in your parlor, by that young man who 
is keeping company with her, you would kick him 
out of the house and over the back fence. And yet 



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fathers and mothers will pay for and send their 
daughters to dancing Masters and thus buy them a 
ticket over the Black Valley Route to the nethermost 
hell. Beware of the modern dance, another one of 
the open doors to helL 

5. If you sow oyster stews, ice cream socials, 
strawberry festivals, cake walks, foot and ankle 
shows, bazaars, grab bags, etc., in the church (so- 
called) you will reap a God -in suiting, Christ-ignoring, 
Holy Spirit -rejecting and anti-holiness society, who, 
themselves, are not only going down quick into hell, 
but who also are poisoning those with whom they 
come in contact, and being used as the direct tool in 
the hands of the devil to damn them world without 
end. Lift up your eyes, look about you and see for 
yourself. These poor, lost, backslidden, fallen de- 
nominations, who, fifty and seventy five years ago 
had the old time Jerusalem, Holy Ghost fire, and 
their altars lined with weeping, heart broken peni- 
tents, are today cold, dead, lifeless, and fireless. 
They have ice in the pulpit, snow in the choir, and 
icicles in the pew six inches long. But why such a 
spiritual dearth? Because the above mentioned 
things, together with so many infidelic preachers, and 
a thousand other things too numerous to mention, 
have driven God the Holy Ghost, and Bible salvation 
from their midst, and in the place of these have plac- 
ed the devil and his sinning religion. Instead of 



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preaching hell-fire and brimstone to sinners, in order 
to get them saved from all their sins, and heavenly 
fire to believers in order to get them sanctified wholly, 
they spend their God-given time (many of them) in 
preaching: human theology, theories, opinions, lying 
traditions, creeds, man made churches, historical 
truth, scientific truth, political truth, etc.. ; while the 
poor, deceived, hood- winked congregations,' the silly, 

■i 

deluded devotees of a bloodless, sinning religion die 
on their hands and drop into a devil's hell, since 
there is not enough Gospel truth in one of their ser- 
monettes to make soup for a sick grasshopper. Do 
you see it? They are reaping just what they have 
sown. May God in mercy wake them up before it is 
too late, and save them from a devil's hell. 

6. If you sow secret societies, lodges, labor un- 
ions, etc., you will reap idolaters, infidels, skeptics, 
unbelievers, and faithless men and women, Secret 
societies, lodges, labor unions fraternal orders, etc., 
are '.aking this, and other countries." Their history 
proves beyond the possibility of a cavil, that they 
are made up largely of thieves, murderers, whore- 
mongers, liars, perjured persons, tobacco chewerf, 
whiskey drinkers, etc. And being bound as they 
are by the most blood curdling oaths, they stand by, 
and protect each other in ailkindsof vice, crime, and 
wickedness. They were born in hell, originated in 
the bottomless pit, smell of "the tires of perdition, 



SOWING AND REAPING. ( 29. 

and are upheld and pushed forward by his satanic 
majesty. Bishops, presiding elders, preachers, and 
church members are among their faithful adherents, 
all of which go to show the corruption of the social 
fabric, the apostasy of the times, and the near ap- 
proach of the coming King. However, the willing 
and obedient are hearing the call. '"'Come out from 
among them, and' be ye separate, saith the Lord, and 
touch not the unclean thing, and 1 will receive you," 
for "it is a shame to speak of those things which are 
done of them in secret." 2 Col 6:17; Eph. 5:12. 

7. If you sow anger, pride, jealousy, irritabil- 
ity, impatience, and carelessness, and recklessness, 
in your home life and government, you will reap a 
class of rebellious,' disobedient, anarchal children, 
who in early life will be "filled with the diabolic attri- 
butes that make them congenial for the society of 
the damned, and bring your gray hairs with sorrow 
down to the grave. In these clays of swift appalling 
apostasy, children, for the most part are not raised 
at all, if viewed from the Bible standpoint, but are 
simply turned loose, like cattle, and left to grow up. 
Hence, it has come to pass that boys and girls at the 
age of ten and fifteen years know as much as men 
and women used to know at twenty-five. It would 
take the mathematical calculation of an arch angel 
to figure out the moral state of society in a half dozen 
generations from now, if Jesus tarries, and things 



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continue to move on as they are going at present. 
No doubt multitudes of children will meet their pa- 
rents at the judgment, and take them by the throat 
and curse them to their face for being the direct 
tool in the hands of the devil to damn them world 
without end. 




Chapter III. 
CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE. 



4 'And when He is come He will reprove the world of sin, 
and of righteousness, and of judgment." John 16:8. "Ee- 
pent ye and believe the gospel." Mark 1:15. 

Conviction is the direct work of the Holy Ghost, 
the Third Person in the Adorable Trinity. The 
Greek is Elegclio and means to refute, to reprove, to 
convict. A radical, thorough, pungent conviction for 
sin, both actual and original, is the only foundation 
for every true work of grace, without which conver- 
sion or sanctification is absolutely impossible. Holy 
Ghost conviction breaks up the fallow heart soil, 
softens the hard, harsh spirit, melts the stiff, starchy 
soul, moves the stubborn will, the king of humanity, 
to action, and seizes the individual thus exercised 
with the pains of hell, and gives a faint feeling of hell 
torments. The conviction is for sins committed, 
righteousness required, and the coming judgment 
that is absolutely certain to over take the finally im- 
penitent. The blessed Holy Ghost using the word of 
God, which is the Divine Sword of the Spirit, (See 
JEph. 6:17.) probes down into the deep subterranean 
region of the soul and makes one feel as if the arch- 
angel of justice had blown his trumpet and sent forth 



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the summons for him to appear at the judgment bar 
of a thrice holy God. Hence the heavy moaning, the 
deep sighing, the loud sobbing, the incesant weeping 
and the persistent cries for mercy, God and salvation. 

It is under such conditions as these that the ap- 
petite wanes, the desire for food, sleep, unholy asso- 
ciates and all kinds of -wickedness fades away as the 
gray light of the early morning, and the poor, help- 
less, captive soul, longs to be releaved from the awful 
load of sin, and, like the caged bird, set at liberty, 
Tha dark, hideous sinful past, like a mighty pano- 
rama, rolls before the soul's vision in a geometrical 
progression until the very night of hell itself shuts 
out every ray of light and the wounded spirit cries 
out in anguish, "I'm lost! I'm lost!'' It is thi3 sort 
of a cry that sees hell to boiling, devils to howling, 
hypocrites to raging and anti-holiness preachers, 
church members and churches (so called) to opposing 
and rejecting the work, crying "fanaticism", "senti- 
mentalism", "bosh", "excitement", "wildfire", etc. 
But the soul that is thus suspended over hell with 
the gospel harpoon pays little attention to the people, 
the surroundings^ the conditions, or the circu in- 
stances and cries, "What must I do to be saved?" 
The answer comes back "Repent and believe the 
gospel. " t i But what is Bible repentance? Let iajs see. 

1. Bible repentance means a godly sorrow for 
sin. "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to sal- 



CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE. 33. 

vation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the 
world worketh death. For behold the self same thing 
that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness 
it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, 
yea, whaMndignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehe- 
ment desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge," 
2 Cor. 7:10,11. 

Here we have two kinds of sorrow. The first 
is "godly sorrow": the second is "the sorrow of the 
world". The first is from above: the second is from 
beneath. The first "worketh repentance to salvation 
not to be repented of", while the second "worketh 
death". That is, it works spiritual, physical, tem- 
poral and eternal death. Prom the above Scripture 
we see that an individual with "godly sorrow" for 
sin will do seven things: 1. There will be carefulness 
on every line. "What carefulness it wrought in you." 

2. There will be a cleaning up and a clearing of obsta- 
cles out of the way. "What clearing of yourselves." 

3. There will be an indignation against every wrong 
thing. "Yea what indignation." 1. There will be a 
fear of doing that which is wrong. "Yea what fear. '"' 
5. There will be a longing desire for God. "Yea, what 
vehement desire." 6. There will be an almost con- 
suming zeal for right. "Yea what zeal." 7. There 
will be a real hatred of the devil and all his works. 
"Yea what revenge." 

You see then by comparing the above Bible pic- 



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ture, or photograph of one who has a real Vgodly sor- 
row" for sin with the modern teaching on this point 
ihat they are as diverse each from the other as night 
is from day, or light is from darkness. This modern 
-teaching which originated in hell, and smells of the 
pestiferous fumes of the lost, and has been, and is 
being scattered broadcast by the devils preachers, 
holds that because of the culture, education, refin- 
ement, advancement, etc. of these "wonderful days", 
It is no longer necessary to have deep, pungent con- 
viction and "godly sorrow" for sin. Away with this 
skepticism, infidelity and "higher criticism" of these 
"last days" of swift, appalling apostasy and "to the 
law and testimony" which says, "The heart is deceit- 
ful above all things and desperately wicked",, and 
"When they heard this, they were pricked in their 
heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the 
apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 
Jer. 17:9, and Acts 2:37. 

2. Bible repentance means the confession of all 
sin. "Against thee, thee only have I sinned and done 
this evil in thy sight. " Psa, 51:4. "If we confess 
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 
1:9. Note the expression "our sins". There are 
wives who are willing to confess their husbands' sins, 
and there are husbands who are willing to confess 
their wives' sins. There are parents who are willing 



CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE. 35. 

to confess the sins of their children, and there are 
children who are willing to confess the wrong doings 
of their parents. There are sisters who are willing 
to confess the wickedness of their brothers, and there 
are brothers who are willing to confess the mistakes 
and errors of their sisters. There are relatives who 
are willing to confess the crookedness and inconsis- 
tencies of their kinsfolk, but are unwilling to confess 
their own sins and misdoings. But according to the 
above Scripture every single individual who has sin- 
ned and withheld from God, society and him cr her- 
self what rightfully belongs to each, must go down 
into the dust of humility and self-abasement and 
confess it "all" out to God, or else go down quick into 
the nethermost hell. There is not a ray of hope, 
there is not a glimmer of light, nor is there any other 
way except this route, namely, "If we confess our 
sins." It is either this, or a burning, hissing hell. 
Come to the rugged cross of Calvary and come now. 
Confess out and cease to trifle with God, His good- 
ness, His mercy, His longsuffering and eternal real- 
ities. Tell him all about it. Pour your soul out at 
His loving feet, ask His forgiveness and swear 
eternal fidelity to Him, His truth. His cause, His work 
and the advancement of His kingdom. Don't play. 
Don't waste any time, but get down to business and 
he will take you on board the gospel ship of Zion, for 
He has said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are 



36. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

heavy laden and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:28. 
Here is a fountain of peace and rest and joy for your 
sin-sick soul. 

3. Bible repeatance means the forsaking of all 
sin. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto 
the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him: and to 
our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Isa. 55:7. 
It is not enough to be sorry for sin, and even to con- 
fess sin, (albeit these are the first steps,) but one 
must go> farther than this if pardon is to be granted 
and divine favor secured. Indeed the above Scrip- 
ture settles the question beyond the possibility of a 
cavil, that you must go out of the sinning business, 
forsake it and leave it world without end, before God 
even promises to save. It is not until after "the 
wicked forsakes his way and the unrighteous man hi& 
thoughts" and "returns unto the Lord", that He 
promises to "have mercy upon him" and "abundant- 
ly pardon" him. The wicked have but one way and 
that "is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the 
end thereof are the ways of death". Prov. 14:12. He 
is on the broad guaged palace car route to the lake of 
fire and brimstone. He hastens on toward hell, with 
the momentum of a cyclone, when suddenly he is 
checked by Divine power and made to feel, recognize 
and understand his lost condition. He longs for God, 
for Divine favor, for pardon and for salvation. He 



CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE. 37. 

stops suddenly, faces about, retraces his steps, and, 
like the prodigal son, returns to the Father's house 
where there is "bread enough and to spare". The 
Father sees him. has compassion upon him, runs to 
meet him, falls upon his neck, presses the kiss of 
pardon on his lips, receives and welcomes him back 
into the family circle, clothes him with the "best 
robe", gives him the golden ring of divine love, places 
upon his feet the silver sandals of His grace, pre- 
pares the great feast by killing the "fatted calf", 
thus fulfilling the Scripture; "Wherefore come out 
from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 
and touch not the unclean thing: and [ will receive 
you, and be a Father unto you. and ye shall be my 
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 
2 Cor. 6:17,18. 

4. Bible repentance means to take the back track 
and make restitution. "And Zaccheus, stood and 
said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods 
I give to the poor: and if I have taken any thing from 
any man by false accusation, I restore him four fold." 
Luke 19:8. In these days of swift, appalling apostasy 
there are very few unsaved people, who when they 
set out to find God and salvation, do not have more 
or less restitution to make in order to obtain the cov- 
eted blessing. Injured parties must be sought and 
found, either by letter or in person, and their for- 
giveness asked; deep, humilating confession must be 



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made, and wrongs made right. Stolen articles are 
either to be returned , or their value in money to be 
payed, c Old debts, bills, etc., must be looked after, 
and settled, and a general cleaning up on all lines must 
take place. This is not a pleasant task but it is God's 
line and. must be taken, or else the one seeking sal- 
vation is sure to meet with ignominous defeat and 
soul disaster. And let it be remembered there is no 
appeal from this radical Bible line, It is this or hell. 
Heaven is cheap at any price. If you will take the 
track, pay the price, and dig to the bottom, God will 
deliver the goods to your address. Take this line 
and there can be no defeat, no failure, and no soul- 
wrecking disaster. There are not enough men on 
earth, nor devils in hell to keep you from getting the 
real genuine, heart felt experience. The might and 
strength of the Lord is pledged to see you through. 
If you have a godly sorrow for sins, if you have con- 
fessed all your sins, if you have forsaken all your 
sins, and if you have taken the back track and made 
restitution, then listen to this sweet promise: "And 
Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to 
this house." Luke 19:9. "Son thy sins are forgiven 
thee." Mark 2:5. Beautiful message. Delightful 
information. Sweet words, undescribable peace, har- 
mony, concord, salvation and joy. Amen. 



Chapter IV". 
FAITH AND REGENERATION. 



"Thyfaifli hath made thee whole," Mark 10:52. "Re- 
pent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins 1x1 ay be 
blotted out," Acts 3:19. 

In the last chapter we had conviction and re- 
pentance. Bible repentance puts one on believing 
ground for pardon, just as the end of ~ a complete 
^consecration puts the Christian believer on believing 
ground for purity, or entire sanctification. We are 
justified by faith, ("Therefore being justified by 
faith",) and ''Without faith it is impossible to please 
Him: for he that cometh'to Cod must believe that He 
is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently 
seek Him," Heb. 11:6. "Faith is the substance [i. e., 
the ground or confidence] of things hoped for, the 



40. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

evidence of things not seen," Heb. 12:1. Hence if 
you have a saving faith you have both the substance, 
or ground, or confidence of the thing hoped for, and 
the evidence of the thing not seen. The Greek word 
in this passage is elegchos, and means a proof, a con- 
viction, a sure persuasion. Hence, a saving aith, 
which is the gift of God, (See Eph. 2:8) is a proof, a 
conviction, and a sure persuasion that, both the 
thing hoped for, and the thing not seen are yours. 
And this faith, or proof, or conviction, or sure per- 
suasion is not rooted and grounded in what men 
have thought, or believed or taught, but in the un. 
changeable, irrefutable, and eternal promises of 
God, Who has said, "Him that cometh to Me I will 
in no wise cast out," John 6:37. Hallelujah to the 
Lamb." Faith is no more perfect until every doubt is 
eliminated, than the heart, the seat of the affections, 
is pure, until the last taiut of inborn, innate, original 
depravity has been cleansed and washed away by 
the second application of the precious blood of the 
Pet Lamb of dark Calvary. And let it be remem- 
bered that the saving faith of which we speak, is 
neither the faith of a devil, ("The devils believe and 
tremble") nor yet a head faith, but it is a heart faith, 
for it is written, that, "With the heart man believeth 
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession 



FAITH AND REGENERATION. 41. 

is made unto salvation," Rom. 10:10. Look up and 
accept Him as your Saviour. 

The principles of faith of which we speak are 
set forth in the following verse of Scripture : "These 
all died in faith, [Greek "According to the faith"] 
not having received the promises, but having seen 
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and em- 
braced them, and confessed that they were strangers 
and pilgrims on the earth," Heb. 11:13. Here are 
three things. 1. They, having seen the promises 
"afar off" were "persuaded" that they were true. 
2. They "embraced them", that is, they threw them- 
selves recklessly out upon them, and placed implicit 
confidence in them. 3. They confessed them, that is, 
their utmost confidence in them. 

Now, whoever you may be, and whatever it is 
you desire from the hand of God, whether it be par- 
don or regeneration or sanctification or the healing 
of your body, etc,, you must follow the same line. 
You must be persuaded that the premises of God 
(They touch every possible emergency and need that 
can come into your life during your probationary 
state.) are absolutely true. In the next case you 
must embrace them, i. e., throw yourself recklessly 
out upon them, without a mental reservation and trust 
them world without end. Then the next step is to 
confess them and your utmost confidence in the God 



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Who made them, and gave them, to a poor lost world. 
Continue to hold on to God and the Holy Spirit will 
seal the promise upon your heart, and faith will sieze 
it, as with iron hooks, until all hell cannot shake you 
loose. Such a faith as this, if you are a sinner seek- 
ing the divine favor, and pardon from all your sins, 
will sweep you through the impenetrable hedge of 
sin into the beautiful plains of regeneration, or con- 
version. But at this point the question arises, What 
is conversion, or regeneration? And what are some 
of the features and characteristics of this God-given 
life planted in the human soul. 

1. Regeneration, as set forth in the Scriptures is 
a real heart-felt, Spirit-recognized, and God-given 
experience. "Not by works of righteousness which 
we have done, but according to His mercy He saved 
us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing 
of the Holy Ghost," Titus 3:5. The Greek word in 
this passage is imlingenesia, and means new birth, re- 
generation, the restoration of the perfect state of 
things, etc. Just as you entered into and became a 
member of your earthly father's family, by the pro- 
cess of natural generation and physical birth, so you 
enter into and become a member of your heavenly 
Father's family, i. e., the family of God, by the pro- 
cess of spiritual regeneration and the new spiritual 
birth. Hence, the language of Jesus : "Except a man 



FAITH AND REGENERATION. 43. 

be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
into the kingdom of God," John 3:5. And, just as 
the physical birth is accompanied by physical life, 
and the new born babe manifests that life, so the new 
spiritual birth is accompanied by spiritual lire and its 
manifestations. Hence, the language: "And we are 
His witnesses of these things: and so is also the Holy 
Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey Kim", 
Acts 5: 32. This God- given life planted in the dead 
soul (All unconverted people are as dead as a devil 
in hell, until quickened by divine power) causes its 
possesser to love the thing3 once hated, and hate the 
things once loved. Hence, the language : "Therefore 
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old 
things are passed away; behold, all things are be* 
come new," 2 Cor. 5:17. Hallelujah to the Lamb. 
He is a new creation, yea, a new created spiritual 
sun, created to shine on uncreated spiritual worlds 
and warm them into being. Glory to God forever. 
This experience is real. You know when you receiv- 
ed it, where you received it, how you received it, and 
what you have, for it is written: "The Spirit itself 
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the chil- 
dren of God," Rom. 8:16. And again, "We know 
[Hallelujah!] that we have passed from death unto 
life, because we love the brethren," 1 John 3:14. 

2. The regenerated life is replete with joy and 



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gladness. There is abundant proof of this statement, 
both in the Bible and human testimony. When Phil- 
ip, that red hot, Pentecost evangelist went down to 
the old heathen city of Samaria, (The Samaritans 
were not only heathens, but irreconcilable enemies of 
the Jews) and preached Christ unto them until "un- 
clean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of 
many that were possessed", a mighty Pentecost re- 
vival broke out and the record says: "There was 
great joy in that city," Acts 8:8. And what else 
could be expected but a marked manifestation of di- 
vine joy and gladness in the countenance, speech, 
conduct and life of that poor, lost, hell -bound soul 
whose strong chains of slavery have just been broken 
by the omnipotent Saviour, and whose broken and 
contrite spirit has been set at liberty and healed? A 
new life enters into him, a bright light floods his soul, 
a beautiful spiritual world opens up before him, and a 
cloud burst of divine power and glory breaks in upon 
him and he, like Thomas, cries: "My Lord and my 
God." With the Psalmist David, the sweet singer of 
Israel, he can truthfully say; "Thou hast put glad- 
ness in my heart". Do you wonder that he laughs, 
cries, sings, shouts, claps his hands for joy, etc., 
when he knows, better than anything in this world, 
that all the past is under the precious blood of Jesus, 
that he stands personally clean before God and man, 



FAITH AND REGENERATION. 45. 

and that ho holds a clear title to a mansion in the 
beautiful Eden above? Glory. 

3. The experience of regeneration puts resurrec- 
tion life and power into its possessor. It turns him 
from the tomb of Jesus, whither he has gone with 
"sweet spices" to "anoint Him", and he finds himself 
running in the opposite direction to meet his risen 
Lord. Being "reconciled to God", which is the 
starting point in this new God -given life, and being 
"in Christ", which is the sphere of his spiritual ac- 
tivity, and living not to himself, but "unto Him" 
which is the New Object, and feeling the resurrection 
life of Him "Who died for them, and rose again", 
which is the power that sustains this wonderful life, 
he has some conception of that beautiful Scripture 
which says : "That the life also of Jesus might be 
made manifest in our body," 2 Cor. 4:10. Hallelu- 
jah to the Lambc The "lost is found", the "dead is 
alive" and there is joy among the angels. "Like- 
wise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of 
the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth," 
Luke 15:10. His life is in God and from God, for in 
Him he lives, and moves and has his being. This is 
rich, sweet, blessed, glorious and delightful, but it is 
not all that God has for us. 

4. This beautiful experience lifts one above this 
poor lost world and sin. "Whosoever is born of 



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God doth not commit sin ; for His seed remaineth in 
him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God," 
1 John 3:9. "Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth 
not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither 
known Him." 1 John 3:6. There are two kinds of 
religion in the world, God's and the devil's. God's 
religion, or salvation, as seen in the above Scripture, 
saves us from all of our sins: while the devil's relig- 
ion, which is a sinning religion, leaves us in our sins, 
freezing us to death in this world, and burning us to 
death in the next. The popular preacher, who stands 
in the modern pulpit, declares with stentorian voice 
that no man ever did, or ever will be able to live with- 
out sin, and thus proves beyond the possibility of a 
caviJ, that he is a child of hell, a prophet of Baal, a 
devil's preacher, and on a bee line to hell fire, for it 
is written, that, "He that committeth sin is of the 
devil," 1 John 3:8. And again we read, "Whoso- 
ever committeth sin is the servant of sin," John 8^*34. 
But blessed be God, there is a glorious deliverance 
from all sin, and it is experienced in the first work of 
grace, or the "new birth". And this was Christ's 
mission into the world, for the inspired record says, 
"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, 
that He might destroy the works of the devil," 1 John 
3:8. "And in this the children of God are manifest, 
and the children of the devil," 1 John 3:10. In what? 



FAITH AXD REGENERATION. 47, 

In the question of sinning and Jiving without sin. 
Please read the narrative in 1 John 3:6 to 10. To 
manifest is to reveal. Hence in this they are reveal- 
ed, namely, God's children live without sin, while the 
devil's children live in sin. Reader, to which class 
do you belong? 




Chapter V. 
CONSECRATION AND SANCTIFICATION. 



"I beseech you therefore, brethren, present your 

bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God," etc. 
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." Horn. 12:1. 
1 Thess. 5:23. 

There are various theories, opinions, notions, 
ideas, etc., afloat as touching the question of personal 
consecration. There are some who laugh and hoot 
at the idea and tell us there is no such thing at all. 
There is another class who declare with stentorian 
voice that when they bowed at the feet of Jesus and 
asked Him for pardon s ? and salvation, they consecrated 
their all to^God. S'ill another class hold it to be true 
that you must consecrate every day, during your 
probationary state, and that this almost endless task 
will not cease this side the grave. None of these are 
correct nor in harmony with the Scriptures, and the 
sacred writings. 

The act of personal, practical consecration is by 
no means unknown in the Scriptures. In the eighth 
chapter of the book of Lev. we have the account of 



CONSECRATION AND SANCTIFICATION. 49. 

the consecration of Aaron and his sons. As touching 
this consecration, five things are worthy of note: 
The first was the publicity of the affair. "Gather 
thou all the congregation together," etc. Verse s. 
The next act was washing them with water. "And 
Moses brought Aaron and bis sons, and washed them 
with water." Verso 6. This act was followed by the 
placing of the linen garments upon them. "Now 
Moses brought Aaron's sons and put coats upon 
them," etc. Verse 13. The fourth step was to anoint 
Aaron and his sons with the holy anointing oil. "'And 
he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and 
anointed him, to sanctify him." Verse 12. See verse 
30 for the anointing of his sons. The last act was 
putting on the blood. "And Moses took of the 
anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the 
altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his gar- 
ments, and upon his sons and upon his sons' garments 
with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, 
and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." 
Verse 30. All this is significient. The publicity of 
their consecration brings out the truth that we can- 
not be consecrated to God, and His service, and sanc- 
tified wholly, with out the fact being made known 
and published abroad. There washing is a beautiful 
illustration of the "washing of regeneration". Being 
clothed with the "holy garments" is a figure of the 
white robe of holiness that God gives to those who 



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consecrate themselves and all they have to him. 
Anointing them with the "anointing oil", which is an 
emblem of the HoJy Spirit, is an illustration oi receiv- 
ing the Holy Ghost. The putting on of the blood, is 
a strong figure of the second application of the blood 
of Jesus to the heart of the consecrated believer, 
which cleanses from "all sin". 

The fact that tne poor, lost sinner has nothing to 
consecrate, and does not do so when he conies to God 
to be saved, and that the saved believer does not con- 
secrate every day, but makes an eternal offering of 
himself and all he has to God, is also set forth in the 
same incident. Aaron's sons were not sinners, but 
saved believers before their consecration. For ifc is 
a settled fact that they were taken "from among the 
children of Israel", (See Ex. 28:1.) to serve in this 
capacity. And it is also an evident truth that these 
same children of Israel, from whom they were select- 
ed, were God's people; for God had chosen them, 
prior to this, and had led them out of the land of 
Egypt across the Red Sea even to Mount Sinai. A& 
soon as they reached "the desert of Sinai", God said 
to Moses: "Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me 
above all people." Ex. 19:5. Hence you see that it 
is as clear as the noonday sun, that these men of 
whom we are speaking, were God's faithful, willing, 
obedient children prior to their consecration. There- 
fore we conclude that as "there is no respect of per- 



CONSECRATION AND SANCTIPICATION. 51. 

sons with God", He requires all His children to con- 
secrate themselves, and all they have to Him, in order 
that He may sanctify them wholly, even as He did in 
this case with His ancient people. And as touching 
the question of their personal consecration, it was 
not for an hour, nor for a day, nor was it to be repeat- 
ed every day, but it was for the entire period of their 
life, once and for all. So the record teaches, and so 
we believe, 

But before we leave the question of personal, and 
practical consecration let us look at one or two New 
Testament Scriptures. Here is one of them: "Yield 
yourselves unto God, as those who are alive from the 
dead, and your members as instruments of right- 
eousness unto God." Rom. 6:13. It is of special im- 
portance that we should notice that the people who 
are here addressed are "those who are alive from 
the dead". Hence they are not sinners, for the un- 
saved are "dead in trespasses and sins", but these 
are "alive from the dead", i. e., they are truly con- 
verted, or regenerated. And yet these very same 
people are commanded to "yield unto God". Hence 
Bible consecration is a yielding of yourself unto God. 
Turn over to God your name, talents, time, reputa- 
tion, property, family, good works, future, all you 
know, all you don't know, ail you ever will know, all 
you have, all you haven't, and all you ever will have. 
In a word, place your will, as touching everything in 



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your life, yea, everything that could possibly come 
up during your probationary state, upon the Divine 
altar and the fire will fall. God is after your will. 
He wants it. When He gets chat He has all there is 
of you. 

Here is another Scripture: "I beseech you, there- 
fore, brethren by the mercies of God that ye present 
your bodies a living sacrifice, ... .that ye may prove 
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of 
God." Rom. 12:1,2. The people here addressed are 
"brethren", i. e., saved believers, and not "sinners". 
They are to present their "bodies a living sacrifice" 
(not a dead sacrifice), and this is to be done that they 
may prove the "perfect will of God". And what is 
His will? "This is the will of God, even your sancti- 
fication." 1 Thess. 4:3. Hence you see that the 
Scriptures forever settle it, that, first we repent and 
believe and are regenerated. Then we consecrate 
ourselves and all we have to God, and believe, 
("Sanctified by faith that is in me." Acts 26:18.) and 
are sanctified wholly. Bat what is sanctification? 
And what does it do for the child of God? 

1. Itcleanseth. No individual lives any length 
of time in the regenerated life who does not make the 
discovery that there is something left in the heart 
that ought not to be there. This something is car- 
nality, and the following are some of its traits: A 
secret spirit of pride. An important spirit. An inde- 



CONSECRATION AND SANCTIFICATION. 53. 

pendent spirit. A real Love of human praise. The 
stirrings and uprisings of anger and impatience. 
A touchy, sensitive spirit. A disposition to resent, 
and to retaliate when reproved, corrected, or con- 
tradicted. Sharp heated flings and stinging state- 
ments hurled at another. A self-willed disposition. 
A stubborn, un teachable spirit. Harsh, sarcastic, 
caustic expressions. A spirit that commands and 
drives. A disposition to find fault, criticise, and to 
pick flaws when set aside and unnoticed. A peevish, 
fretful spirit. A man-fearing spirit. A fear of 
faces. A fear of failure. A fear of persecution, pov- 
erty, sickness, death, and the judgment. A jealous 
disposition. A secret disposition of envy shut up in 
your own soul. A disposition to speak of the faults, 
blunders, mistakes, errors, failures, a' id idiosyncra- 
cies, rather than the gifts and virtues of those more 
talented and appreciated than yourself. A spirit of 
doubt and discouragement in times of pressure and 
opposition. A lack of quietness and confidence. A 
disposition to worry, fret, stew, and complain in the 
midst of pain, or poverty, or at the dispensation 
of divine providence. A lack of concern for poor 
lost souls. A dryness, indifference, and a lack of 
power with God and man, These are a few of the 
many traits of carnality. But glory to Jesus, all this 
unclean brood, with evil thoughts and evil tempers, 
etc.. is taken out when we are sanctified wholly, be- 



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cause "the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth 
us from all sin.'' 1 John 1 :7. The Psalmist David 
asks the question, "Who shall ascend into the hill of 
the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?" Here 
is the answer: "He that hath clean hands and a pure 
heart." Psa. 24:3, 4. Clean, Glory to God! Clean in 
thought, word, and in act; clean in your home life, 
private life, public life, business life, and church life. 
This is sanctification. This is holiness. Do you en- 
joy it? Have you the goods in stock? 

2. The next step after the cleansing is the fill- 
ing. "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit 
gave them utterance." Acts 2:4. They were filled, 
not with theory, nor doctrine, nor the lying tradi- 
tions of men, but with the personal Holy Ghost. They 
were filled, not with selfishness, nor narrowness, nor 
envy, nor bitterness, but with the Holy Ghost. They 
were filled, not with strife, nor jealousy, nor division, 
nor hatred, nor malice, but with God, the Holy Ghost. 
They were filled, not with Methodism, nor Presby- 
terianism. nor Congregationalism, nor Campbellism, 
nor sectarianism; they were simply filled with the 
Holy Ghost. He possessed their entire being, and 
taking His seat upon the throne of their heart, be- 
gan to reign without a rival. It was brue in their 
case, and it must be so in ours. And now that the 
personal Holy Ghost has entered the purified heart 



CONSECRATION AND SANCT1FICATION. 55. 

to abide, live, and rule forever, He continues to pour 
into the cleansed heart the sweet, tender, melting 
love of God, for it is written. "The love of God is 
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which, 
is given unto us. " Rom. 5:5. Hallelujah to the Lamb! 

3. The next step in the divine catalogue is the 
empowering for service. Cleansing, filling, and em- 
powering, is the divine order. "But ye shall receive 
power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." 
Acts 1:8. The revised version reads, "But ye shall 
receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon 
you." You often hear people say, "1 am sanctified, 
but I have uot received the Holy Ghost." "I am 
sanctified, but I have not received the enduement of 
power.". What an absurdity! Consummate fool- 
ishness! The above Scripture knocks this human 
theory clear out beyond the North pole. If you 
are sanctified wholly, you have the Holy Ghost, 
and if you have the Holy Ghost you have the power, 
for God positively declares that you receive the pow- 
er when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. It was so 
in the case of the disciples, (Read the 2nd chapter of 
Acts for proof tnat they received power when they 
received the Holy Ghost,) and it must be true in our 
case. Away with the lying traditions of men, and 
let us stick to the blessed Bible. 

But what about this power? All kinds of no- 
tions, ideas, and human theories are afloat as to what 



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it really is. Some think it is intellectuality, hypnot- 
ism, (the power of mind over mind) emotionalism, 
shouting, screaming, hollowing, running, jumping, 
etc. Others hold it to be true, that it is the power of 
numbers, and the power of wealth, and the power of 
brains. But all these human theories are incorrect, 
and misleading. It is no proof that simply because 
men have any, or all of the things mentioned above, 
that they are in possession of this power. Because 
history proves that men have had all of these things, 
and yet none of this power. This power is divine; it 
is unearthly, that is, it does not spring up from the 
earth; nor is it of the earth; (albeit it is for those 
who dwell upon the earth) nor is it to be secured 
from man, nor yet given by him to his feliowmen. It 
is of God, and from God. He alone can give it. To 
have this power means to have the Holy Spirit, to 
know the Spirit, to hear the Spirit, and to obey the 
Spirit. With this power you are a success, but with- 
out it you are doomed to everlasting defeat. He, the 
Holy Ghost will give you power to do right, power to 
reject wrong, power to sing, pray, testify, exhort, 
and preach; power over your own self, power over 
your enemies, yea, power with God and men. With 
the apostle Paul we feel like saying, "Thanks be un- 
to God for His unspeakable gift." 



Chapter VI. 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 



"The rich man also died and was buried, and in hell he 
lift up his eyes being in torments." Luke 16:23. "The judg- 
ment was set, and the books were opened," Dan. 7:10. 

God is the author of all that is pure, holy and 
good. He is the source of all wisdom, knowledge and 
understanding. He is the center of all light, life and 
consciousness. He made this Bible and He made it 
just right. It is true that He committed the task of 
writing it, to men, but these '"holy men of God spake 
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," 2 Peter 1:21. 
This precious Book bears the stamp of its Maker, is 
divine in its origin and makeup, is a part of the di- 
vine mind and will, as revealed to man, and is true, 
absolutely true. It tells of a holy God, a holy heav- 
en, and how we may lead a holy life. It also tells of 
a lurid, liquid * 'lake of fire and brimstone", which 
has been "prepared for the devil and his angels", 
and which will be the final abode of all the individ- 
uals, families, nations and races of mankind who 
"know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our 



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Lord Jesus Christ," 2 Thess. 1 :8. 

While it is a lamentable fact that in these days of 
swift, appalling apostasy, the Bible doctrine of a lit- 
eral hell, for all the finally impenitent is scarcely ever 
preached from the modern pulpit, and by the greater 
part of both the preachers and people is hooted and 
jeered at, yet it does not change the solemn, God- 
given truth that there is A hell, an awful hell, an 
indescribable hell. Just as certain as there is a 
God, a blessed Jesus, a delightful Holy Ghost, a 
beautiful heaven and "a holy people", so there is an 
Awful hell, a "bottomless pit", a "lake of fire and 
brimstone". God says so, and He knows. "Let 
God be true, but every man a liar", Rom. 3:4. This 
blessed Bible from Genesis, the beginning, to Rev- 
elation, the end, is full of awful curses for the diso- 
bedient, and blessings for the obedient. To those 
who repent and turn away from their sins and the 
evil of their doings, it holds out the most delightful, 
sweet, and precious promises of joy, peace, rest and 
happiness, both in the life which now is, and in that 
which is to come. But to the lawless, the disobedi- 
ent, and the impenitent sinner there is but one thing 
held before him, and that is a boiling, hissing, lurid, 
liquid "lake of fire and brimstone", yea, "a certain 
fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, 
which shall devour the adversaries," Heb. 10:27. 
The awful judgments of God against the evil doer, 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 59. 

and the hell fire and brimstone that awaits the finally 
impenitent, thunders from the Decalogue, roars 
through the prophe3ies, rumbles in the] writings of 
the four evangelists, flashes in the Epistles, and pours 
forth from the Revelation, 

Hell is just the opposite to heaven. Hell is be- 
neath us, heaven is above us. According to the 
teaching of the Scripture, both places are definitely 
located. The one is pure, clean, holy, beautiful,, 
bright, peaceful, joyous, delightful, rich, sweet, and 
full of glory : while the other is vile, corrupt, filthy, 
dark, frightful, hideous, and where sorrow, sadness, 
misery, woe, and pain hold sway: yea, where "there 
shall be weeping and gnashiug of teeth" God de- 
clares there is such a place and He certainly knows. 
He further states that the unfortunate, unhappy in- 
habitants of those fiery regions "shall drink of the 
wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out with- 
out mixture into the cup of his indignation : and he 
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the 
presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of 
the Lamb; and the smoke of their torment ascendeth 
up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor 
night, who worship the beast and his image, and 
whosoever receiveth the mark of his name," Rev. 
14:10,11. Note the expression "forever and ever". 
In Rev. 15:7, we have the same expression "forever 
and ever". In the first passage it refers to the dura- 



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tion of the punishment of the wicked : while in the 
second it shows the eternity of God. The Greek in 
the first passage is eis ainos aionon, while in the sec- 
ond it is eis toys aionos ton aionon, the articles toys and 
ton being omitted in the first passage but understood, 
and translated the same in each. 

The above combination of Greek, words means 

UNTO THE AGES OF THE AGES, Or THE ETERNITIES OF THE 

eternities, or forever and ever. Hence you can 
see at a glance, that the punishment of the wicked in 
hell is co- eternal with the existence of God. There is 
absolutely no escape from this truth. How long does 
God live? Answer, unto the ages of the ages, or 

THE ETERNITIES OF THE ETERNITIES, Or FOREVER AND 

ever. How long does their ' 'smoke of their torment'' 
ascend? Answer, unto the ages of the ages, or 

THE ETERNITIES OF THE ETERNITIES, Or FOREVER AND 

ever. So the Bible teaches and so we believe. 
Away with this devilish doctrine of the annihilation 
of the wicked. Those who hold this devilish doctrine 
to be true, are placed in a very embarrassing position, 
for according to their theory, if the wicked are to be 
annihilated, then the time must certainly come when 
God Himself will cease to exist, for He positively de- 
clares in the above Scriptures that the one exists as 
long as the other. If He lives forever, and the in- 
spired record says He does, then the wicked burn in 
hell foreyer, and they do. He says so, and He 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 61. 

knows. It is much better to believe God than the 
lying traditions of men. "God is not a man that He 
should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent". 

Death, hell and the judgment Let us take a 
peep at some of the judgments of God and see if He 
hates sin or not. Behold the first pair, Father Adam 
and Mother Eve, They believed the devil, disobeyed 
God's holy law and commandment, fell into sin and 
hid "amongst the trees of the garden". God ap- 
peared on the scene, searched them out, they made 
their confession and the three-fold curse fell, the first 
on the woman, the second on the serpent and the 
third on the man ; and the once happy pair were 
driven from the beautiful garden, and both the 
"cherubims" and the "flaming sword which turned 
every way to keep the way of the tree of life" ap- 
peared. 

Cain, the first murderer slew his brother Abel, 
and quickly the withering, blighting, anathema of 
God Almighty fell upon his unprotected head: "A 
fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." 
The poor man overwhelmed with sorrow and grief 
cried: "My punishment is greater than I can bear". 
Sin is the most costly thing in all the universe. 
God help us to flee from it as we would from the hiss- 
ing viper that is coiled and ready to sting us to death. 

The antedeluvian world became vile, corrupt,, 
depraved, debauched, and reached a climax in re- 



62. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

jecting God and His truth. God, in condescending 
mercy, instructed Noah to build an ark and preach 
righteousness, truth and holiness to the outlaws. 
He obeyed, entered the ark with his wife, his three 
sons and their wives, "and the Lord shut him in." 
The clouds gathered, the thunder roared, the light- 
ning flashed, "the windows of heaven were opened", 
and "all the fountains of the great deep were broken 
up", and divine castigation and retribution poured 
forth in a stream of unmitigated, indescribable 
wrath upon the unprotected heads of those hood- 
winked, deluded thousands, and only eight (Those in 
the ark) were left to tell the tale; all the rest going 
down quick into hell, except the little infants, who, of 
course were saved. 

The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were "wicked 
and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.*' Their 
sin became "very grievous," so much so that the 
Lord, after He had sent Lot, his wife, and his two 
daughters out of the city, (His wife became a pillar 
of salt because she looked back) "rained upon Sodom 
and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the 
Lord out of heaven," and another multitude of souls 
went wailing into the nethermost hell. 

Koran, Dathan, and Abiram three anti-holiness 
preachers (See Numbers 16.) incited a rebellion 
against Moses and Aaron, and two hundred and fifty 
princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 63. 

men of renown, joined them. These rebels offered 
strange incense before the Lord. God said to Moses 
and Aaron, "Separate yourselves from among this 
congregation, that I id ay consume them in a mo- 
ment. " They obeyed God, and the earth opened her 
mouth, and these wicked men, they and all that ap- 
pertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and 
the earth closed upon them. This fearful castigation 
and divine retribution was followed by another 
dreadful judgment. "And there came out a fire 
from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and 
fifty men that offered incense." Appalling scene! 
Frightful spectacle! Another awful judgment fell 
upon the congregation. The next day they declared 
that Moses and Aaron had slain the Lord's people. 
The whole congregation of the people rose up against 
these men of God. and the wrath of a sin-avenging 
God burst forth upon them like a mighty cyclone of 
fire. Aaron "stood between the dead and living," 
and made "an atonement" for them; but before "the 
plague was stayed" 14,000 were destroyed, 

These are only a few of the many swift and aw- 
ful judgments of God against wicked, rebellious sin- 
ners, as set forth in the book of God. but they are 
enough to show that God hates sin, and His way of 
dealing with those who trample His great mercies 
under their unhallowed feet, and refuse to love, and 
obey Him. If it should be asked whv God has dealt 



64. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

thus with the disobedient, the unthankful, and the 
unholy, as set forth in these Bible pictures, here is 
the answer: "For if God spared not the angels that 
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered 
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto 
judgment: and spared not the old world, but saved 
Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteous- 
ness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the un- 
godly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah 
into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, 
making them [mark this language] an ensample unto 
those that after should live ungodly.'" 2 Pet. 2:4-6. 

But before leaving this part of the subject, let 
me call your attention to some modern judgments of 
God. Just a few years ago a tidal wave swept the 
Isle of Java, and 4,000 sinners were swept into eter- 
nity, to stand in the presence of a thrice holy God, 
and be judged by Him, "with whom there is no vari- 
ableness neither shadow of turning." Our warship, 
Wateree was anchored in the haibor of Iquique, 
Peru. Suddenly there was an earthquake, a tidal 
wave, a volcanic eruption, and the ship was carried 
by the wall of waters one mile in shore, and not a 
man was hurt. But later when the wave returned 
to the sea it swept 10,000 souls into eternity. What 
an awful judgmeat! Who denies it? Reader, there 
is a God, a heaven, and an awful helJ. Take heed! 
Beware! Look out, or you will drop into the pit of 
everlasting burnings. 



Chapter VII. 

DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT, 
Continued. 



Last year (1905) I passed through Johnstown Pa. 
where God sent one of His literal and awful judg- 
ments. That undescribable flood came down upon 
that God-defying, Christ-rejecting city with an almost 
unlimited, irresistible vengeance, and fury, and in 
one hour swept five hundred sinners into eternity. 
That awf ul judgment was a literal hell of water. The 
houses, with their frightened inhabitants, went 
crashing down the Conemaugh River, and were hurled 
against the piers of the Pennsylvania railroad 
bridge, only to be shattered to pieces, and to burn 
them alive. These poor victims, caught in this death 
trap, perished by thousands, by fire and by water, 
while inhuman monsters, called men, ravished dead 
women, mutilated, robbed, and murdered the wound- 
ed and dying to get money and jewels from their 
victims. It became necessary to call out the State 
troops to save the wounded, the dying, the burning 
victims, to protect the living from the inhuman treat- 
ment of demon-posessed men, and to give the dead a 
decent burial. What was this but a literal hell? And 
God sent it. But He sent them warning before He 
sent this awful judgment. The secular papers did 



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not tell all the truth. God sent one of His faithful 
servants who spent two weeks on the streets of that 
wicked city, preaching the everlasting gospel of the 
Son of God, and warning the people of the awful 
judgment that God would send, unless they repented 
and turned away from their sins. How did they re- 
ceive the message and the God-sent messenger? Did 
they, like the old ancient heathen city of Nineveh, 
repent, sitting in sackcloth and ashes? Nay, would 
to God they had. But instead of this, they scoffed, 
jeered, laughed, hooted, etc., and then took God's 
messenger and locked him up in jail. But God al- 
ways looks after His own, and protects His own 
interests. Although the jail was in the path of the 
severe judgment, and everything went down around 
it, yet it stood and the prisoner was safe. After the 
awful judgment of lire and water had wrought its 
fearful havoc of wreck and ruin, they brought the 
preacher out and turned him loose, and let him go, 
finding, when it was too late, that his message was 
only too true. Wake up sinner or you, too, will soon 
find your Johnstown flood of death, hell and the 
judgment. 

A few years ago a company of lawless, Sabbath 
breakers went out on lake Pepin, on the waters of the 
upper Mississippi, and spent the time in drinking, 
carousing, and desecrating God's holy day. God 
showed His disapproval by coming down out of the 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 67. 

sky and twisting a black vortex of His wrath. The 
cyclone struck the gay, giddy, lawless party, over- 
turned the vessel and they were drowned. But there 
were in that company, a /ew strong men who climbed 
upon the overturned hull to save their lives. God 
saw it. The funnel shaped cloud stopped, returned 
a second time and completed the awful judgment of 
an angry God against those wicked sinners, and not 
a single person was left to tell the tale. Another 
illustration of death, hell and the judgment. Look 
out sinner or you will go wailing into the "bottom- 
less pit". 

In 1886 the state of Wisconsin, by Legislative 
enactment, expelled the word of God from the public 
schools, repealed the Prohibitory Law, turned the 
whiskey murder-mills loose for revenue, and turned 
the state over to this hell on wheels. They spit on 
God's blessed book, and He sent His awful judgment. 
During the summer of that year a circus, which is 
one of the open doors to hell, came to New Richmond, 
Wisconsin, and the gay, giddy crowd came to see the 
show. God twisted a vortex of His vengeance, and 
sent a raging cyclone, which is a puff of His wrath, 
and cut a swath through that town, wounding or kill- 
ing one hundred and fifty sinners. Those who were 
present testify that it was a literal hell on earth. 
Sinner friend, traveler to the judgment bar of God, 
take heed, and remember that your day of mercy 



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will soon be gone forever, and you, too, will be 
cut off without hope and without mercy. A soldier 
passed through the Civil War and came home with- 
out a scratch. Many times God had spoken to him 
about the eternal interests of his blood-bought, judg- 
ment-bound, and eternity-destined soul. But he 
spurned the callings of God and continued in his 
course of sin. One day while walking down the street, 
as he passed a brick building, where the brick layers 
were at work, a brick fell, struck him on the head 
and he was instantly killed, and went down quick 
into the pit. Do you see it? His day of grace was 
past. The space of time allotted to him to repent was 
gone. "And I gave her space to repent of her forni- 
cation; and she repented not." Rev. 2:1. 

In 1887 God sent His judgment upon Jamestown, 
North Dakota. At that time there were two brew- 
eries in the town. A few saints got together and be- 
gan to cry to God for deliverance from the whiskey 
traffic. God answered their prayers by sending a 
whirling cyclone, a vortex of His wrath, straight 
through the city. No one was hurt, but the brewery 
was blown into pieces, and dumped into the James 
river. The following year the other brewery was 
burned, and two years later, or in 1889, the licensed 
party was defeated, and the prohibitory law went 
into effect. Our own God answers prayer. He and 
His truth are marching on. Help us praise Him. "Cry 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 69. 

out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion : for great is 
the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee, " Isa. 12:6. 

A few years ago Hinckley, Minn, was destroyed 
by a forest fire and hundreds perished, and were 
swept into eternity without God and without the nec- 
essary preparation of heart to meet Him in peace. 
But before this awful judgment of the literal, materiaL 
hell-lire swept them off the probationary stage of 
action, God gave them warning, and a chance to be 
saved. On Sabbath preceeding the destruction of 
that place, five different pastors, without connivance, 
preached from the text, "prepare to meet thy God". 
Like Sodom, they were warned, and then rejecting 
God, His messengers, and His message, they, like 
the ancient city, were destroyed. Another proof 
that God's judgments are'in all the earth. Reader, 
wake up before you drop into hell fire and brim- 
stone. 

One of the most awful, swift and terrible judg- 
ments of modern times, was the utter destruction of 
St. Pierre on the island of Martinique, by the vol- 
canic eruption of Mount Pelee, which took place at 
seven fifty o'clock on the morning of May 8th, 1902. 
An eye-witness gives the following graphic descrip- 
tion of Mount Pelee, and its harvest of death. He 
says: "I saw Sb. Pierre destroyed. It was blotted 
out by one great flash of fire. Nearly 40,000 persons 
were all killed at once. Out of eighteen vessels lying 



70. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

in the roads only one, the British Steamship Rod- 
dam, escaped, and she, I hear, lost more than half on 
board. It was a dying crew that took her out. 

"Our boat s the Roraima, of the Quebec line, 
arrived at St. Pierre early Thursday morning. For 
hours before we entered the roadstead, we could see 
names and smoke rising from Mount Pelee. No one 
on board had any idea of danger. Captain G. T. 
Muggah was on the bridge, and all hands got on deck 
to see the show. 

"The spectacle was magnificent. As we ap- 
proached St. Pierre we could distinguish the rolling 
and leaping of the red flames that belched from the 
mountain in huge volumes and gushed high into the 
sky. Enormous clouds of black smoke hung over the 
volcano. 

"When we anchored at St. Pierre I noticed the 
cable steamship Grappler, the Roddam, three or four 
American schooners and a number of Italian and 
Norwegian barks. The flames were then spurting 
straight up in the air, now and then waving to one 
side or the other for a moment and again leaping 
suddenly higher up. 

"There was a constant muffled roar. It was like 
the biggest oil refinery in the world burning up on 
the mountain top. There was a tremendous explo- 
sion about 7:45 o'clock, soon after we got in. The 
mountain w T as blown to pieces. There was no warn- 



DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 71. 

ing. The side of the volcano was ripped out, and 
there was hurled straight toward us a solid wall of 
name. It sounded like thousands of cannon. 

{ 'The wave of fire was on us and over us like a 
lightning flash. It was like a hurricane of fire. I saw 
it strike the cable steam ship Grappler broad side 
and capsize her. From end to end she burst into 
flames and then sank. The fire rolled in mass straight 
down St. Pierre and the shipping. The town vanish- 
ed before our eyes and the air grew stifling hot, and 
we were in the thick of it. 

' ! Whereever the mass of fire struck the sea the 
water .boiled and sent up vast clouds of steam. The 
sea was torn into huge whirlpools that careened to- 
ward the open sea .... 

"The blast of fire from the volcano lasted only a 
few minutes. It shriveled and set fire to every thing 
it touched. Thousands of casks of rum were stored 
in St. Pierre and these were exploded by the terrific 
heat. The burning rum ran in streams down every 
street and out to the sea. This blazing rum set fire 
to the Eoraima several times. Before the volcano 
burst the landings of St. Pierre were crowded with 
people. After the explosion not one human being 
was seen on land. ' ? 

What a withering, blighting judgment and what 
a literal stream of hell fire and brimstone burst in 



72. TRUMPET BLASTS, 

upon that doomed city, with its ten thousand beauti- 
ful home,?, numerous factories, and more than thirty 
thousand inhabitants. You say "how aw 7 ful". In- 
deed. But did you know that before God sent this 
dreadful judgment upon the inhabitants of this 
wicked city, that He sent missionaries to preach Je- 
sus to them and urged them to accept God as their 
Father, Jesus as their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost 
as their Comforter? But what did they do? They 
rejected the messengers and the message, and it is 
reported that after the missionaries left, they cruci- 
fied a pig in derision of God, His ministers and His 
truth. And now what? They spit on God's book, 
and He baptized them with hell-fire and brimstone, 
and in five minutes more than 30,000 hutnan souls 
were swept into eternity, and no doubt nearly all of 
them went wailing down into a devil's hell. Another 
illustration of how God deals with sin, and rebellious 
sinners. God in mercy wake us up. 

But the time would fail me to tell of the Galves- 
ton disaster, the San-Francisco earthquake, the earth- 
quake in Chili, South America, etc. and the thous- 
ands of lives lost and the millions of dollars worth of 
property destroyed. Enough has been said, and 
brought to view to show that God hates sin. His 
judgments are in all the earth, and sin — well, He will 
scald it in the burning vitriol of His wrath, and woe 
to the man or woman with whom sin is found. 



CHAPTER VII I. 
A PEN SKETCH OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 



I was born in Tuscola, Douglas County, 111., 
Oct. 5. 1873. When only two years of age I was 
kicked on my right temple, by a rough shod horse, 
and received an ugly wound, which came very near 
ending my life. Father hastened for the doctor, 
who lived a distance of five miles. During this time 
I lay and bled profusely. When they returned, the 
physician told my parents he had no hope for my 
life, and thought it out of the question for me to re- 
cover. But our own God, in infinite mercy, willed it 
otherwise. However, the scar I received from that 
wound will go with me to ihe grave, unless Jesus 
should come for His Bride before I fall on sleep, in 
which event I fully expect to meet Him and the 
blood washed throng in the air. 

Shortly after the above incident my father lost 
his team, cow, etc, by going security for another 
man, and we were turned out into the streets, by 
the officers, and had nothing of value left. An uncle 
of mine who lived in Rice County, Kansas loaned my 
father money enough to pay his and mother's way to 
that new country. We spent two full years in those 
parts and passed through many severe trials and 
hardships of various kinds. 



74. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

Our next move was to Kingman County, Kansas, 
where father took one hundred and sixty acres of 
land, located twelve miles south west of Kingman 
City, Kansas. During the years we spent there, we 
had an overflowing experience of trials, difficulties, 
afflictions, perplexities and hardships, all of which 
are common to the frontier life. The first winter we 
froze our feet; that winter we had nothing to burn, 
in the way of fuel, but sunflowers, blue joint grass, 
tumble weeds, etc. Then came the living on corn 
meal stirred up with water, (we were thankful for 
both the meal and the water) passing through a fear- 
ful cyclone, which destroyed our house, carrying 
away our bedding, clothing, etc., and leaving us 
nearly naked, and many other things of which space 
forbids the mention. 

At this time father and mother were members of 
the U. B. denomination, but knew very little about 
God and salvation. However, in the providence of 
God, he sent some Holy Ghost preachers into our 
community, and my mother and afterwards my 
father were beautifully saved and powerfully sancti- 
fied. For days after father's sanctincation he had 
but little desire for food and sleep, and spent his 
time in shouting the praises of God (he is more de- 
monstrative than his son,) This so annoyed the 
neighbors that they held a meeting, decided he had 
gone crazy, and thought it would be wise to take 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 75. 

some steps toward sending him away to a place of 
safety. But a sister (God bless her soul if she is 
still alive) whose heart God had touched, arose and 
declared she would not, for her right arm, lift her 
voice against him. She then closed by saying she 
wished, that not only herself, but all the rest were 
just as crazy, (if this they so desired to call it) as 
was my father. So the idea of sending him away 
was abandoned and he went on his way rejoicing. 

It was during this revival tide which lasted for a 
considerable length of time, both in our immediate 
neighborhood, and in an adjoining one live miles 
away, that God touched my heart, by His divine 
omnipotent Spirit, and I was powerfully saved from 
all my sins. I was just eleven years old. Although 
the persecutions were severe from my school mates 
(at one time 1 left the school because of them) God , 
helped me to testify, exhort and warn the people 
of their danger, blessed my labor of love and gave 
me some fruit. To Father, Son and Holy Ghost be 
all the glory. 

Soon after my conversion father had another 
misfortune and practically lost his farm. He then 
moved to Mead County, Kansas and filed on another 
one hundred and sixty acres of land, twelve miles 
north west of Englewood. Because of continued 
failures in the crops, w 7 e were compelled to w T ork by 
the day, part of the time, to make a living for the 



76. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

family. When I was thirteen years of age we went 
to work on the grade of the Rock Island railroad five 
miles west of Mead Center, Kansas. Here I began 
to associate with bad company, listened to the devil, 
grieved the Spirit of God, disobeyed the holy com- 
mandment, backslid, lost my sweet experience, ran 
away from home, broke my mother's heart, and 
started on a Hee line for hell. For nine years I trav- 
eled north, east, west and south seeking rest, but 
finding none. Five different times I went into busi- 
ness for myself, and for a time it seemed that [ 
would be successful. But as suddenly as I entered, 
as quickly :I would lose all I had. It was during 
these times I would become desperate, give vent to 
blasphemous utterances, and declare I was the most 
unfortunate and wretched man on earth. Then I 
took to drinking, (only moderately however) to gamb- 
ling, to smoking, etc., and tried to drown my God- 
given convictions. One time I went about fifteen 
hundred miles from my home, and hoped by so doing 
to escape the influence of my mother's prayers. But 
it was useless, for in my quiet moments an inward 
voice would say: "Arthur, your mother is still pray- 
ing for you." Why was this? Ah, my mother had 
hold of God and His promises, and there were others 
who had hold of Him too. On one occasion when 
father became discouraged, and doubted whether I 
ever would be saved, mother's faith arose with the 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 75. 

test and she declared that she would live to see me 
saved and hearjrne preach the Gospel. And she did. 
She is yet alive and on the hallelujah line. Glory to 
God for a mother's faith and prayer, Mothers, do 
not be discouraged, but continue to hold on to Gocl 
for your children. He will bring them in yet. 

Time rolled on. Five successive failures in 
crops, and father left that part of the country and 
moved to Ford County, Kansas, six miles northeast 
of Dodge City. He spent two years there and then 
moved to Ft. Scott, Kansas. It was in this city dur- 
ing the spring of 1895 that Major Cole, of New York 
City, opened a large tabernacle meeting, I was in a 
little town twelve miles east of Jefferson City, Mo., 
when I received an urgent letter fiom my father, 
telling me to come home at once, and accept a posi- 
tion that he had secured for me with a Cincinnati 
firm. On reaching my home I found the town con- 
siderably stirred over the BIG POPULAR REVIV- 
AL, and my people and relatives were speaking of it 
anon and again. 

I was not a church goer, and was proud of the 
fact that I had not been in a religious service for 
nearly one year. After repeated, urgent invitations, 
I consented to go to the meeting and see for myself. 
But I got in such trouble in that service, that I left 
in a rage, declaring in my own heart '.hat I never 
would return. Several days passed before I did 



78. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

return. During the interval between my first and 
second visit to the tabernacle meeting, my father 
unconsciously threw a harpoon into my proud soul, 
that stuck like a clinched nail in a board and refused 
to come out. It was on Sabbath afternoon. As I 
came up the back way, I noticed him sitting on the 
back porch with pencil and paper in hand, busily 
engaged in writing. I asked him what he was doing. 
He answered: "Writing a letter to Jesus for my 
children." This went into my heart like a dagger, 
and I turned and left the place as quickly as I had 
come. "Writing a letter to Jesus for my children", 
continued to ring in my soul and I could not get 
away from it. Nor did I get rid of it until I found 
"Him of Whom Moses and the prophets did write." 
I made an effort to leave the city, but was prov- 
identially hindered. My last day in the devil's ser- 
vice, was spent at a base ball game in open wicked- 
ness and outbroken rebellion against God and His 
truth. On the evening of this day, after a heated 
discussion wiuh my cousin's wife, who told me that 
if I did not think enough of my mother, aunt, her 
and other relatives to go with them that night to the 
meeting; (I was to leave the next day) I was meaner 
than dirt, I consented to go. When we reached the 
tabernacle, she started down the aisle, and told me 
to follow. It seemed to me that every eye was turn- 
ed on us. I obeyed, and she led me within three or 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 79. 

four seats of the front. I do not remember the text, 
nor anything of interest that the preacher said 
But when the invitation was given, she took me by 
the hand with tears streaming dowa her face, and 
trembling like a leaf shaken by the wind, she said, 
"Arthur, if you do not surrender, I will die." Just 
then the pastor of the Congregational denomination 
laid his hand upon my shoulder, and began to urge 
me to yield to my God-given convictions. I remain- 
ed firm, stubborn and unmoved. After some time 
he spoke to me. in substance as follows: "If you 
leave this town tomorrow an unsaved man, in two 
weeks your lifeless body will be brought back here 
for burial, and your poor soul will be lost. 5 ' Those 
words were driven by the Holy Ghost into the deep 
jungles of my poor, hungry, starving soul, and an 
inward voice, in substance, whispered: "Now or nev- 
er. This is your last call. Heaven or hell, which 
will you choose?" I hesitated, and God made me to 
understand as clear as the noonday sun, that unless 
I yielded then and there, I would cross the dead line, 
and seal my eternal doom. I said to the Holy Ghost, 
"I yield", and started to the altar, assisted by the 
good brother, who kept me from falling as I stag- 
gered toward the penitent form. 

A hard battle ensued. The pains of hell siezed 
me and I saw myself going down to death and ruin. 
The workers around the altar tried to persuade me 



80. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

that I was saved, but I knew it was a lie. The evang- 
elist made an effort on the same line, which so stirred 
the hell that was in me, that I became very angry, 
arose to my feet, gave him a severe tongue lashing, 
but felt no better. Soon after, however, while stand- 
ing there on my feet, I became so desperately in ear- 
nest about the salvation of my soul, that I lost sight 
of the evangelist, the large congregation, and all my 
surroundings and began to call mightily on God to 
save me from a devil's hell. The Lord helped my 
faith to arise on the wings of earnest, importunate, 
persistent prayer, until I could say from the depths of 
my trembling soul: "I believe that Jesus saves me 
now." Instantly, heaven opened, the burden rolled 
down the hill of Difficulty, over the embankment of 
Unbelief, and tumbled into the river of Oblivion, and 
my soul was bathed in a sea of unearthly light. I 
eaped to the platform, (it would seat about two hun- 
dred) turned toward the audience and began to wit- 
ness to this wonderful salvation. For a number of 
years the fountain of tears in my soul had been dry, 
and I had been unable to weep. While telling the 
people what God had done for me, and the delight 
and joy of this sweet story of the cross, my eyes fell 
upon my precious mother, who was then seated just 
in front of the altar. Instantly my heart was broken, 
my spirit melted, and the great deep of my soul was 
broken up. I rushed toward her, embraced her, and 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 81. 

we baptized each other in our tears, which gushed 
from our eyes like falling rain. Oh, what a meeting, 
oh, what a time of rejoicing. Words are of no avail 
here. The prayers, tears, groanings, and longings of 
nine long years, which she and others had offered in 
my behalf, were suddenly answered. Words cannot 
describe, nor pen portray, the delight, glory, joy and 
satisfaction that filled our hearts. Hallelujah to the 
Lamb. The dead was alive, and the lost was found. 
This was on the night of May 20, 1895. All glory be 
to Jesus, Amen. 

I continued to testify, exhort, preach, etc., from 
house to house and sell goods for the firm in Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, for about three months, when in the city 
of Olathe, Kansas, with only twenty-five cents in my 
pocket, I knelt, at night, with another brother, under 
an electric light on the public square, and settled it 
with God that I would cut loose, at once, from every 
worldly pursuit and give my entire time to the Gospel 
ministry. This I did, 

In the fall of this year I entered the Baptist Col- 
lege at Ottawa, Kansas, but continued to preach the 
Gospel on the Sabbath, at two points, one four miles 
south, and the other four miles northwest of the city. 
Winter came on and I had nothing suitable, in the 
way of clothing, to keep me warm. Nor did I have 
any money with which to buy. The students in the 
school told me I was a fool to preach for those con- 
gregations, when they neglected to look after my 
temporal needs. But I had promised ^ God that I 
would tell no one about my "needs", except Him 



82. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

alone, and I was determined to keep my promise, 
even if it took my life. One of God's dear children, 
(she is now my mother-in-law) at whose house I was 
staying, and working for my board, gave me her 
shawl to use for an overcoat, and through rain, mud, 
snow and storm J continued to go and preach the 
everlasting Gospel. One evening while I was engag- 
ed in prayer in my room, I was strongly impressed to 
make a list of the articles I needed, and as well as I 
remember the following is the list : One ten dollar 
overcoat; two suits of woolen underwear; one pair of 
shoes; one pair of overshoes ; and two outside shirts. 
Having made out the list, I presented it to the Lord, 
and an inward voice whispered in my soul that each 
article would be delivered, and I offered thanks for 
the same. 

My continued exposure caused me to take a se- 
vere cold, and in December I took very sick, went 
down to death's door and lay on the bed of languish- 
ing for three months, in which time I threw up an ul- 
cer from the pit of my stomach the size of a dollar, 
caused from my past drinking of intoxicating bever* 
ages, and hemorrhages set in. During this sickness 
my bill of goods (the clothing, etc.,) was delivered at 
my bedside, except the shoes and shirts which were 
brought in before I took sick. And all this in answer 
to prayer. Hallelujah to our own God. He does 
answer prayer. "But my God shall supply all your 
need according to His riches in glory by Christ Je- 
sus," Phil. 4:19. "I have been young, and now am 
old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
his seed begging bread," Ps. 37:25. 



Chapter IX. 
A PEN SKETCH OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, 

CONTINUED. 



On the 16th clay of December. 1595, while lying 
on this bed of affliction, 1 entered into the solemn, 
God-given institution of holy wedlock, when I was 
not expected to live but a few hours. But the ever 
blessed God ordered it otherwise, spared my life, and 
raised me up. However, my condition of health was 
such that I found it necessary to put myself on a 
plain diet of corn meal, oatmeal, graham, etc., which 
I followed for one year. But during this, and the 
two following years, wife and 1 continued our labor 
of love in the evangelistic field, preaching to thous- 
ands, and seeing hundreds of souls blessedly saved. 
To Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be ail the glory. 

In August, 1898, I attended a Methodist camp- 
meeting at Wichita, Kansas, held by Bro. Carradine, 
of the South Methodist denomination, and God put 
me under unearthly conviction for holiness, notwith- 
standing the fact that I had honestly professed it for 
three years. As soon as I saw that I had been de- 
ceived, I set about at once to seek the -pearl of great 



84. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

price." For three weeks, lacking one day, I groan- 
ed and cried to God for purity of heart. A few days 
after my eyes were opened to my great need, I re- 
ceived a telegram from my wife, stating that my 
brother who had been saved under my ministry, and 
powerfully sanctified about three weeks after his 
conversion, was at the point of death, and for me to 
come on the first train. I hastened home, Ft. Scott, 
Kansas, and reached his bedside just in time to close 
his eyes in death. Up to within two or three days of 
his departure, he would, crawl out of his bed, kneel 
down, and ask God to heal him. But God saw that 
it was best to take him, hence we bow in humble 
submission to His divine will. He was only eighteen 
years of age, and was just entering the ministry. In 
one short year he had committed to memory about 
forty chapters of the Bible, and had outlined about a 
half hundred sermons. As he drove a delivery 
wagon during the day, he did this work at night and 
on the Sabbath days. "We have no doubt he went to 
live with Jesus, and by the help of God we are de- 
termined to meet him in the bright, beautiful Eden 
above. Oh, God, help us to be true to the end. 

After we had laid him away in the "Evergreen" 
cemetery,, to await the resurrection morn, I opened 
a meeting, under the Holy Ghost, in the Methodist 
Protestant church building, on the corner of Sixth 
and Holbrook sts.. Ft. Scott, Kansas, and continued 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 85. 

to preach, and to seek for the great deliverance. On 
the night of September 2, 1893, at fifteen minutes 
past nine o'clock in the evening, I was kneeling in 
the pulpit, with four or five at the altar, crying to 
God to send the holy fire down upon us. While 
kneeling there I received one of those celestial tele- 
grams from the sky, which in substance was as fol- 
lows: "You have been pleading for nearly three 
weeks for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now get 
ready to receive it, for it is on the way." Turning to 
the pastor, 1 said, "It is coming in a double train 
load." Like a flash of lightning the holy fire struck 
me, and I was laid out prostrate on the floor, and 
unable to get up. Oh, such fire, such heavenly fire! 
And oh, what a time of suffering! I felt the fire run- 
ning to the ends of my toes and fingers. If my body 
had been in a furnace of literal fire I certainly could 
not have suffered more intensely than I did. I made 
repeated efforts to get upon my feet, but it was use- 
less. I thought I was burning to death, and told the 
astonished onlookers so. This lasted, as well as I re- 
member, for about one hoar, when suddenly the 
suffering ceased, and the blessed,* personal Holy 
Ghost filled every avenue of my purified soul. Wave 
after wave of divine glory rolled over and through 
my cleansed heart, and it seemed to me that it was 
written in fiames of living fire, "This is sanctifica- 
tion." I leaped to my feet, witnessing to this mighty 



86. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Comforter had 
come, aud my soul was satisfied. Hallelujah to the 
Lamb! 

Immediately after my sanctification we went to 
our first pastoral charge. There were three preach- 
ing points on the circuit, and during the first six 
months I held meetings at each of these places, and 
souls were both saved and sanctified. Bless God 
for giving the devil a black eye. The next spring, 
1899, I entered the Methodist college at Winfield, 
Kans., and served this same charge during that year. 
The circuit being seventy miles away, it was neces- 
sary for me to leave home on Saturday morning, and 
could not get back until Monday night about eight 
o'clock. During this year I traveled about five 
thousand miles, and paid the railroad companies one 
hundred dollars. This, with tuition, books, rent, and 
feeding three of us made our expenses heavy. Quite 
a number of people on the circuit withdrew their 
support because I wouid not cease to preach the 
Bible doctrine of holiness and hell. We here extend 
thanks and appreciation to the few who did stand by 
the truth, and helped us. The opposers said, "We'll 
starve him out." And at times it looked as if they 
would be successful. Many times I have left wife 
and. the little babe (we had but one child then) with 
scarcely anything to eat, and have her meet me on 
my return Monday evening, and ask me if I had re- 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 87. 

ceivecl any money to buy food, etc., and not a few 
times I was compelled to answer: "No, dear, I only 
received enough to pay my tare home." Those were 
times of sifting and severe testing. One week the 
three of us and another man Jived on thirty-five cents. 
And mark you, wife was nursing the child at that 
time. But she stood nobly by me through it all, and 
did not murmur nor complain. When we were in 
such destitute circumstances, and some of the peo- 
ple on the circuit told me they would raise the salary, 
and pay me. if I would stop preaching holiness and 
hell; it is the custom of denominations to pay a sah 
ary. but I had nothing to do with that, as I told them 
I was neither preaching for them, nor for money, 
but to them, and for God. My wife said, i! Do not 
compromise the Gospel, but preach it clean and 
straight, and if we are compelled to go to the poor 
house, we'll go together." Those words were a 
great comfort to me. Blessed be God forever! 

During those times of severe testing the Lord 
gave me a dream, or vision of the second advent of 
Jesus, which I believe He would have related in as 
few vords as possible. The night he gave it to me I 

was in the village of A . In the dream or vision 1 

saw the hearens covered with black clouds, and it 
seemed clear to all that a heavy storm was approach- 
ing the town. Another Bro. minister and myself, 
(I thought we were engaged in a tabernacle meeting 



88. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

in the village) were going from the tent in a north- 
western direction and facing the approaching storm. 
The people of the town were greatly frightened and 
running in different directions for shelter. Neither 
of us were alarmed, albeit the appearance of the 
storm was enough to strike terror to the strongest 
heart, especially if one was in an unsaved condition. 
We moved steadily onward toward the storm which 
became more dense and dark. Suddenly the heaven 
opened in the far "^distance, and I saw our own blessed 
Jesus riding in a beautiful chariot and coming to- 
ward us in«the clouds of heaven, with the heavenly 
host, and with power and great glory. Instantly I 
was caught away from the earth and my friend, and 
I found myself flying toward the coming host with 
great rapidity. The distance between us seemed to 
be very great. On and on I swept toward the object 
of my love, and on and on He came toward me. At 
last we met, and throwing my arms around His neck 
I embraced Him, and poured out my gratitude at His 
feet. Just then I discovered that we were settling 
down into a very large enclosure with high massive 
walls on every side. As near as I could tell the mul- 
titude of people who were on the out side seemed to 
be making a desperate effort to climb over the walls 
and get on the inside. Only one, a young man, so far 
as I could tell, was successful. At this juncture the 
scene changed. A throne appeared, the judgment 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 89. 

was set and I saw our blessed Lord sitting on the 
judgment seat of justice. The first one to appear be- 
fore that indescribable tribunal of justice, was the 
young man whom I had seen climb over the wall. 
The act was real! Awful!! Indescribable!!! Jesus 
read the death sentence, which declared that his fu- 
ture home throughout on coming eternities, was to 
be u the lake of fire burning with brimstone". As 
soon as the sentence was read, the mother of this 
young man, who was standing near by, sprang for- 
ward and in substance said: "I object to that sen- 
tence. That is my boy", Jesus, the great Judge, 
looked her straight in the face and said : u Madam I 
give you to understand that I am the Master of this 
house." She said no more. 

Again the scene changed. This poor, unfortun- 
ate young man was turned over into the hands of 
God's officers and they led him away. I looked to the 
right and lo, I discovered a great precipice at the 
bottom of which was an indescribable lake of lire 
and brimstone. I saw them go toward this fiery 
prison. When they reached its edge, they threw 
the young man over and down, down, down he went 
screaming, crying, groaning, moaning, begging, and 
pleading, but all to no avail. The cries of that poor, 
doomed soul awoke me. I opened my eyes, took in 
my surroundings in a moment, of time, and found 1 
was still on the earth. Bat the memory of that 



90. TRUMPET BLASTS. 

vision, with its bright and dark side has never left 
me. God grant that, not only your unworthy ser- 
vant, but all who read these lines, may in the last 
day, be found, not on the left, but on the right hand 
of the impartial Judge, "Who will render to every 
man according to his deeds." 

My second appointment was the Maple City cir- 
cuit, twenty six miles southeast of Winfield Kansas. 
Here 1 spent about one year, when God led me defi- 
nitely to sever my connections with the Methodist 
denomination, He showed me that sectarianism is 
the curse of this and other countries; that it divides 
families, communities, states and nations; that the 
666 warring sects are all man made; that He Himself 
has a Church, and has named it "The Church of 
God"; that He is its creator, builder, supporter, and 
law giver; that it is a divinely organized body; that 
we are born into it, and when sanctified are made 
holy members of it; that it is not a Legislative, but 
an Executive body; that it is one and only one; that 
it is composed of saved believers; and that it has 
order, ordinances, elders and deacons. And besides 
giving me light on this one divine Church, He has so 
arranged it in His divine providence that I should be 
identified with a body of: people who see eye to eye 
on this very precious truth. And although others 
have not the light and do not see it, yet we recognize 
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world, regardless of name, order, color, race etc., as 
our brothers and sisters in the Lord. We do not 
consider that we are "it", the "Church of God", to 
the exclusion of all others, but we do hold that we are 
in "it", i, e, in the "Church of God". Amen. A 
thousand blessings on the entire family of God. Hal- 
lelujah to the Lamb forever and ever. 

But I must bid you adieu. If yon have received 
any help in the perusal of these few feeble lines, 
p]ease give God ail the glory. Are you saved? Are 
you sanctified? Are you on your way to the bright, 
beautiful Eden above? Will you meet us in that 
beautiful land "Where the wicked cease from troub- 
ling and the weary are at rest"? 

THE END. 



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